Edward P. Doherty
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Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward P. Doherty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1869724 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward P. Doherty Context triple: [Garrett farm near Port Royal, Virginia, United States, eventParticipant, Edward P. Doherty]
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A.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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B.
Arthur E. Molloy
Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
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C.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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D.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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E.
William A. Shea
William A. Shea was an American lawyer and civic leader best known for spearheading the return of National League baseball to New York City, leading to the founding of the New York Mets and the naming of Shea Stadium in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward P. Doherty Target entity description: Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
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A.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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B.
Arthur E. Molloy
Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
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C.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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D.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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E.
William A. Shea
William A. Shea was an American lawyer and civic leader best known for spearheading the return of National League baseball to New York City, leading to the founding of the New York Mets and the naming of Shea Stadium in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
John Wilkes Booth
ⓘ
Port Royal, Virginia ⓘ assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| captured | John Wilkes Booth ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| eventLocation | farm near Port Royal, Virginia ⓘ |
| familyName | Doherty ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | commanding officer of the detachment pursuing John Wilkes Booth ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | P. ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| notableEvent | American Civil War era manhunt for Lincoln’s assassin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading the detachment that captured John Wilkes Booth
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role in the aftermath of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | pursuit of John Wilkes Booth ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Port Royal, Virginia
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Virginia ⓘ |
| significantEvent | capture and death of John Wilkes Booth ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Edward P. Doherty Description of subject: Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.